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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
MANGEL-WURZElS.
A Crop Whose Value as Food Far Surpasses
That of Corn.

That of Corn.
When preparing for crop of man
gels, | choose a good piece of land,
that has a deep soil, and is a little
sandy so that it will not bake up hard
when the summer sun comes on it, but
it must be dry and not Doggy. As
early in the spring as it can be got in
good order to work l use roller to
crush the Jumps down fine, before fur
rowing out. From feet to 2 feet 6
inches from center to center is a good
distance between the burrows, and the
seeds are dropped about 8 inches apart
in order to let the hoe pass between.
In manuring for this crop l use 40
loads to the acre, of good rotten
manure. Iprefer that made from corn
fodder, as it is less likely to have seeds
of so many kinds of weeds that are in
manure made by feeding hay. 1t is
better to be year old or more, as then
the young plants will flourish in dry
spell. After the land is furrowed out.
haul the manure and let it be spread
right in the bottoms of the drills, and
not too far ahead of the covering up
again.
Plant the seeds close after the cover
ing of the manure; 2 or seeds in each
place with the finger and thumb. II
more seed no harm done, as in the soft
fine soil they can easily be pulled out in
the thinning, for which the best time is
when the plants are large enough, and
good soaking rain has come. Be care
full not to loosen the earth too much
around the plant left, as generally after
a good shower of rain the sun shines
hot and would dry up the young roots.
Plant from to 81 pounds of seed TO the
acre. Buy tie seed of good reliable
dealers. After the seed is planted it is
good plan to roll the rows, so as to
press the earth down to keep it from
drying around the seeds, and the seed
will start to grow the sooner. In thin
ming out leave one to a place. The
plants that are pulled out will do to fill
in the places where the seed missed
growing. In doing this be sure and have
all the roots down as straight as possible.
Ii the plants are of good size cut off the
tops of the outside leaves as they would
be sure to wilt and fall over on the
ground. The straighter the newly set
plants can be kept the better they will
do.
During the last of the summer when
grass is scarce, l strip off all the out
side leaves and feed to the COWS or
sheep. This will help the roots to
develop in size. and also furnish feed
for the cattle. l let them stay in the
ground as long as the frost stays away,
but before the hard frosts come l get
them up and store them away where
they can not freeze and where l can get
to them in the winter for use. A good
way to do, if the cellar is small, is to
pile them up against the end of the
barn, secure them from frost on the
outside, and have a small doorway cut
through from inside. If fastened every
time it is used the roots will be kept
from freezing and the COWS or ewes in
lambing time will have needed food.
Let any one try it and he will say it
pays better to grow one acre of roots
than four acres of corn. l would rather
have them for my cows than six acres
of corn.-J. NIL, IN Ohio Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
BYE, BABY, BYE.

The sun has gone from the shining skies;
Bye, baby, bye.
The dandelions have closed their eyes;
Bye, baby bye.
And the stars are lighting their lamps 10 see
If the babies and squirrels and birds, all three,
Are sound asleep Us they ought to be.
Bye, baby, bye.
The squirrel is dressed in a coat OF gray;
Bye, baby, bye.
He wears it by night as well as by day;
Bye baby, bye.
The robin sleeps in his feathers and down,
With the warm red breast and the wings OF
brown;
Bat the baby wears little white gown
Bye, baby, bye.
The squirrels nest is a hole in the tree;
Bye, baby bye.
And there he sleeps as snug as he can be;
Bye, baby, bye.
The robins nest is high overhead,
Where the leafy boughs of the maple spread;
But the babes nest is little white bed.
Bye, baby bye.
--EudOra s. Bunstedd, IN 81. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
GETTING NEW COINS.
Where the Bright Pennies Co:oa FroI
and How They are Circulated.

Where the Bright Pennies Co;oa From
and How They are Circulated.
"Where do the new pennies come
from?"
The question is asked daily. Every
one has dimly defined idea that they
are turned out of the United States
mint, but under what conditions they
are put into ejaculation few people
seem to know. Ross W. Drum, cashier
of the Tradesmen's National bank,
United States depository for Pittsburgh,
was asked the question the other day.
ANY one can get them by applying
to the United States Treasurer or an
Assistant Treasurer, and sending the
money" The Treasury regulations on
the subject of minor coins read thus:
The Treasurer and Assistant Treas
urer will pay out for lawful money any
minor coin not needed in the current
business of their offices.
"Do the banks put most of them in
circulation"
Not now. They formerly did, but os
late years many mercantile houses have
been making practice of getting their
own pennies from the Treasury De-
partment This was rendered neces-
sary in making change by the practice
of making prices in odd numbers, as
ninety-nine cents, forty-nine cents and
similar prices. This of course puts a
large number of pennies in circulation
and the stores must have them on hand,
and they have taken to buying their
pennies in large amounts"
''How is other coin procured from
the mints?"
Upon receiving an original certifi-
cate of the Assistant Treasurer in New
York for deposit of one hundred
dollars, or any multiple Of one hundred
dollars, made for the credit of the
Treasurer in general account, the
Treasurer will cause a like amount in
gold coin to be sent from the mint at
Philadelphia at the consignec's expense.
upon the receipt of currency or
gold coin the Treasurer or an Assistant
1lCctoulSl Will SduoO W Dt lJttlt W dp-
plicants in cities where their respective
offices may be situated, standard silver
dollars in any required amounts. TO
applicants outside of cities in which
the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer
may be situated. the same will be
forwarded at the expense of the Govern
ment in sums or multiples of five
hundred, upon receipt by the Treasurer
of an original certificate issued by an
Assistant Treasurer or National bank
depository that q deposit of currency
or gold coin has been made to the credit
of the Treasurer on general account.
"Fractional silver coin will be for
warded from the office nearest to the
place OF the destination by express at
the expense of the Government in sums
or multiples of five hundred dollars,
under the same conditions that govern
the issuance of silver dollars. Also by
the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer,
by registered mail free of charge, in
sums or multiples of seventy dollars,
at the risk of the party to whom sent,
upon receipt of currency or gold coin.
-PittS6urgh Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
Play I'M
The Happiness of Childhood One of Gods
Good Gifts-He Delights in Innocent Di
version.

The Happiness of Childhood One of Gods
Good Gifts-He Delights in Innocent Di-
version.
Play is neither idleness nor folly. 1t
is one of the many good things which
have come into your life from Heaven.
1t is gift from God. 1t is one of His
wonderful works. When He made the
beautiful earth and the sky, and the
body and soul of man, He made the
happy play of childhood. 1t is part
of your life as truly as prayer is, as
truly as the soul itself is. And it is
part of the life of children all the world
over. If it We're possible TO journey
with the sunlight and see all that it
sees, and go round and round the globe
with it, we should everywhere see chill
dren at play.
Now, the first thing want you to see
is that this playing of you boys and
girls in the streets, or anywhere else, is
a pleasure to God. He is God so kind
and loving that He delights IN every
thing innocent that is a delight to you.
Just as He delights in the songs of
birds and in the color and fragrance of
flowers, He delights in the play of child
hood. 1t was because He was thinking
of it as a pleasure that he sent Zecha-
riah to tell the builders of Jerusalem
the good news that children should
soon be playing in the streets.
God has made play a part of your
life because He wants you to be strong.
He has work waiting in the years to
come for every boy and girl on the
earth; and although it is not all the
same kind of work, all of it is work
which will want strength for the doing.
Therefore, He will not have you always
at tasks. He has divided the time for
tasks with time for play. He will have
you out in the open air. By your
games He will have your body in
endless motion. You shall run and
not be weary. You shall leap and
dance, and race and climb, so that
every part of you may be made strong
for the work that lies before you in life.
For another thing, God wants you
to have a happy gateway into life.
Nobody can tell beforehand whether
your after life will be happy; but God
in His love has secured that the time of
play shall be happy. In games you
are joined together, just as we who are
old in our tolls. The playground is a
little world. You can not have any
pleasure in any of its games unless you
try to have the Others playing with you
as happy as yourself. To be unkind,
unjust, unfair, or ungenerous in
game, is to spoil it or bring it to
an end. Surely this is new, rich adj
dition to our knowledge of God, when
we discover that the seme kind Father,
who gave His Son to die for us that He
might deliver us from sin and death,
made the joy and play of boys and girls
in the streets and in the house. May
you carry something of the joy of it all
through life with you, and may you re-
member that God has been so good to
you that He has set your life between
two worlds of joy-the world of your
happy childhood and the world that
awaits you in Heaven. AleTaasier
Macleod, d. d.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
PUBLIC OPINION.


Against Human Progress.
Public opinion is collective medioc-
rity" 1t finds expression in manner,
habits, usages, laws and literatures,
which react upon it and tend to give it
comparative fixedness in its elementary
characteristics, in spite of its proverb-
ial fickleness. This complex body of
thought, like an organism in which
many parts coalesce and become co-or-
dinated in one structure. although sub
iect to notifications in the later accre-
tons, becomes like ''the cake of Gus
tom" hardened with age. 1t is not
strange, therefore, that in some of the
older countries, like China, it is hardly
possible for the reformer to make SO
much as dent in public opinion, in
favor of the removal of barriers to
progress and the Introduction of the
ideas and methods of a more advanced
and progressive civilization.
Even in the most enlightened COM
munities to-day, public opinion is the
most powerful influence constantly ex-
erted against intellectual development
and moral and social progress. 1t pre-
vents free and impartial discussion of
unpopular views, and intimidates into
silence and conformity with prevailing
beliefs and observances the great ma
.iority of those who hold these views;
thus directly discouraging independ-
encc, sincerity and consistency of
thought and speech if not indeed MAX
ing these qualities the exception
among those who hold decidedly I'M
popular views, and silence or acqui-
escence and temporizing course the
general rule.
All original thought must come from
individuals. All great moral and So
cial reforms must receive their first i'm
pulse nom the few and not from the
many. Nothing, therefore, is more
imperatively demanded in the interest
of progress, than the freest and fullest
expression of those opinions which
clash with the conversation of the day,
as counterpoise to the tendency of an
arbitrary and despotic public opinion to
make all think alike, and thus to pro-
duce ''intellectual peace at the price of
intellectual death" 1t is not simply
the right, it is the duty of those in adj
vance of their fellow-men to speak their
honest thought and in way to be I'M
derstood. Loyalty to conviction and
courageous devotion to the highest con-
ceptions of truth, regardless of public
opinion or personal interests, is a de-
mand of the times, both in public and
private life. There is vast amount of
truth not likely to be popularity re-
ceived for long time and they who de-
fend it. in spite Of the pressure of pub
lie opinion, perform a service the value
of which can not be overestimated.-
Open Court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
THE COST OF WAR.
What Europe Spends Annually For 1t
Armies and Navies.

"naC Europe SpenuS Annually FOr IrS
Armies and Navies.
Mr. Lewis Appleton, of the British
and Foreign Arbitration Society, has
just published pamphlet containing
some statistics in regard to the cost of
war They are intended, of course, to
aid the cause of international arbitra-
ton and the disbanding of the inn
mense standing armies that are eating
up a large share of the substance of
Europe. The annual expenditure of
all the European powers for their
armies and navies is $780,, 800, 900.
The national debts of Europe, which
were incurred by war nearly alto
gether, aggregate $24, 119, 057, $50.
Nearly 81, 900, 100000 annually is paid
out for interest.
There are at present actually under
arms 4, 1886 men, and the number
trained for war and subject to call is
16, 697, 484. Besides these there are
291, 253 men in the navies, comprising
304 ironclads and monitors, and 1872
frigates. All this is sustained because
of the ambitions and greed of COM
paratively few men and the necessity of
guarding against them. The working
men pay the bills and necessarily
remain in poverty. 1t is on them that
the burden rests. Others may fail on
account of it to be as rich as they
otherwise would be, but the suffering
comes on the laboring classes. There
is weighty sermon in these figures
N. Y World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27

"A jamestown photographer claims
to have taken some excellent pictures
of a cyclone which fingered in that
vicinity recently. When we see one of
them we will feel good deal more like
believing the story, A photographer
who can go out and set up his machine
and face cyclone and make it look
pleasant and hold its chin little higher
and keep still long enough to have its
picture taken must have lots of nerve.
-Ddkot0 Bell.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27

An alloy which closely resembles
gold may be made, the Jewellers Jour-
nal says, with sixteen parts of copper,
one of zinc and seven of platinum.
The copper and platinum are covered
first with borax and then with pow
dered charcoal and melted then the
zinc is added. The alloy thus obtained
is exceedingly malleable, and can be
drawn into the finest wire, while it
never furnishes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27

care you fond of poetry, Mrs.
Foepar?" "Indeed am, Miss Pert;
especially pastoral poetry" Pastoral
poetry? Have you volume of it?"
ITO be sure, the hynnal, you know;
it's made up of verses by all the pas
tors of our church. IonkerS Gazette.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-19
BUSINESS NOTES.


II is estimated that the losses of the bull
clique at San Francisco, who have been
manipulating the wheat market, will be be-
tween 5000, 900 and $1,000 600 Mackay
and Flood are believed to have been the
principal promoters OF the corner" and the
opinion is expressed that money shortage
caused the collapse The sessions of the call
board have been discontinued for the present.
Baird & Dillon, dealers In silver and plated
ware, Chicago, were closed up on execution
Thursday, Their. liabilities are about $780,
GOO a8i
About 10000 acres of pine lands in South
Carolina and Georgia hive Been purchased
by a Pittsbirg and New York syndicate"
for 81 100000 vt el s'1rst
Mr. CARROTS dry goods store at Daven-
port, Iowa, was closed Monday be the
sheriff; liabilities, 1000; the assets viii not
fan much belo~ that sum- 1000 e..
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-19

WHICH HIS cnlir SUoOV. JUDGE JAMESON.
Van Pelt seemed 10 he in q semi comatose
state, evidently the effect of his copious liba-
tons Ochs was staring vacantly into space
and Casselman looked dumbfounded, as il
something was going Gu which he did not
quite understand. Mccarthy had sort Of
sneering leer upon his vulgar features
Varnell alone was composed. undoubtedly
prepared for the worst,
Then the verdict was read by Clerk Lee.
The reading of the document, which was
signed by all the jurors, WIS made doubly
impressive by the fact that the phrase, "two
years in the peni.cntiary, was repeated seven
times, and thewords, "a fine of $1,000" four
times. Ochs, Leyden and Wasserman were
completely overcome The first-nan.ed hid
his face in his hands; while Leyden sank back
into his chair as il in .fainting fit. Wasser-
man bit his under lip, and opened his eyes
wide. Varnell never moved, neither did Van
Pelt, who seemed to be blisssully ignorant of
everything that happened around him Wren
passed his fieshy hand over his broad face,
and then began to pull nervously at his small,
black goatee
After the jury was polled the states attor-
ney rose and, addressing the court, remarked:
IL suppose, as none of counsel for defendants
is present, it is but fair to save their rights
30 far as motion for new trial is con-
cerned. .tg ea
Before he could proceed any further Alex
ander Sullivan pushed his way through the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-19

iff Gleason stepped nm 70 Clerk Lees desk
with a slip OF paper containing the names of
the eleven defendants 90 7'1'''. ~
a(5imme the two vears' ones first ba ra-
quested In a very business Tide manner. and
as Clerk Lee called out the names. aMc-
Clauebry. Ochs.' Ievden- Varnell Van Pelt
Wren and Wasserman. Deputv Sheriff
Gleason placed check .nark bebind each Of
these names N
aNow tbs othsys ba said and tho four
lucky ones were checked or IN the sa,na bus;-
ness wav sheriff Matson raneatod the same
oneration with q LIST ~ his own Than thsra
was a comnarison between the lists and the
seyen iail-birds wers handed over 70 the den
mites In the corridor and ON tn, sidewalk
people stood In dense thronps watching the
procession 90 bv
II Is more than probable that the commits
sioners win accent the verdict Of tbe iprv
without attemntino TO anpeal from n That
seemed to be their REORGANIZATION Friday
night at least. They recoonized that thew
were treated rather delicatelv hv the iprv
ana thew are not willing To risk n new trial
by a new Jury and run the risk of getting
three wears Casselman Coils Oliver and
Mccarthy will undoubtedly nav their fines
and the others win consent to 90 70 the neni.
tentiary at once Dan Wren NAV obiect he.
cause he may not want to face Joe Mackin,
but he is the only man who will object.
The latest move in the aboodle" trial was
taken Saturday afternoon. Judge Jameson
went over from the south to the north side
at o'clock and opened court. Mr.. Sullivan
appeared in behalf of the men who were
found guilty Friday night. He said he was
not ready to argue the motion for new
trial, and after little talk the Judge con-
tinued the matter until some date during the
next term, to be fixed hereafter.
Mr. Grinnell said he wanted the matter
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-19
College Girls

Gradually and slowly, but very
surely, the world is coming to the
opinion that girls, in or our of coll
lege, are just as smart as their broth
ers, if not little smarter. 1t has
taken long while to evolve this truth
or at least to bring it to the concious-
ness of the average male being. 1t
would have been very inconvenient
to admit any such truth in the ages
when woman was looked upon chiefly
as pack horse and beast of burden
but now that she has come to the
throne, we do not think that mascu-
line obtuseness can resist this truth
much longer. Strongly as we shall
always battle for the rights of man
from the editors chair, and unwilling
as we are to be shorn of our privileges
by the coming Woman, We shall have
TO admit that intellectually she is just
as bright, strong and vigorous as the
other sex. The latest confir-
nation of this truth comes from
England, where in Newman and Cir
ton Colleges the young ladies have
carried off the highest honors of Cam
bridge University, both in the clas-
sizes and mathematics. The only
consolation that American men can
get is that this was far away on the
other side of the water; but then,
Wellesley is only dozen miles from
Harvard and Smith is still nearer to
Amherst. Were like competition
for honors to take place on this side
OF the sea, who would take the prizes?
1t is hardly safe, perhaps, for the col
lege boys to find out.-The Golden
Rnle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-19

THE JURY RETURNING THE VERDICT
the indictment, and fix the punishment of
Richard s. McClaughrey at two years in the
penitentiary." The same phraseology, "two
years in the penitentiary," was repeated after
the names OF Adam Ochs, Michael Leyden,
Harry A. Varnell, John K. Van Pelt, Daniel
j. Wren and Michael Wasserman and
then the verdict proceeded: "James j. Nc
Carthy. fine of $1,000" and the same
amount was attached to the names of Richard
M. Oliver, Chris Casselmann and Chris Cells.
To say that there was hum of surprise at
this verdict is putting things mildly. One
howl went up from among the spectators in
the dimly lighted part of the cour. room, but
ii was quickly checked. The defendants sat
in CONSERVATION. A small army of deputy
sheriffs and bailiffs had completely sur
rounded the defendants TO prevent any es-
capes, Sheriff Matsol directing the move
ments in person. After the reading of the
verdict the usual humdrum of legal techni-
calities went ON undisturbed, and then the
crowd, which had completely filed the court
room went out slowly.
The defendants upon whom penitentiary
sentence was imposed, Leyden, Wren, Nc
Claughrey, Wasserman, Varnell, Van Pelt,
and Ochs, were at once taken from the court
room TO the Jail and the others We're allowed
to go home.
The hands of the clock above Judge ia
miesons desk showed $50 o'clock, when the
noise among the spectators was checked by
the announcement that the jury had agreed.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-19
sLUeGER JOHN HoNoRED.
Citizens of Boston Present Him with a
$40, 600 Diamond Belt

$1,000 Diamond Belt.
BosToN. Mass, Aug .. The Boston thea
tire was not large enough TO hold the crowd
which gathered together Monday night to
witness the presentation of the $4,000 dia-
mond belt to John l.. Sullivan from the cit-
zens of Boston. Among the vast audience
were the mayor of Boston and a large dele
cation from the city council Actors, jour
nalists, politicians, students, statesmen, cler-
gymen, and the professional sporting man
formed a large part of the gathering.
Councilman w. b. f. Whall, of Boston,
made the speech of presentation, which was
responded to by the champion in asplendidly-
worded speech. He thanked his admirers for
their kindness towards him in the past and
announced his intention of visiting England
with the hope of meeting Jem Smith He
said he had no doubt as to the result of his
trip and assured the crowd that he would re-
turn to his native land with the lustre of his
name undimmed. He paid a kind word to
his manager, Sheedy.
Sullivan sails for Europe Sept. IS. He will
carry the belt with him.